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News: Some
of our scholarship winners.
**If you are a scholarship winner we'd love to
feature you on this page. Just email a summary of your achievements
and a picture. We'll do the rest."
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Unkempt Dance Collective perform
Teahouse |
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Scholarships Presented
to 2011 Winners
In the
function room at the premises of the Shire of Mundaring, Trust
Chairman Michael Ryan presented cheques to the two winners.
The event took place on Sunday December 11th at 4pm. Shire
President Helen Dullard welcomed the guests. Trustees were
there,as were some Shire Councillors, Friends of the Trust and
family and friends of the scholarship winners. Trustee
Philippa O'Brien, in the absence of patron Bob Juniper,
presented the Bob & Trish Juniper Mundaring Arts Prize to
the inaugural winner, Rosalie Vinicombe. Pictured are Jessica
Lewis, Carly Armstrong and Amy Wiseman, who performed an
excerpt from Jessica's work 'Teahouse'.
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Jessica Herbert
(2011 Scholarship Winner)
Jess attended
Glen Forrest Primary School and Eastern Hills SHS where she
was the head girl in 2007.She studied at WAAPA and has a
Bachelor of Music, majoring in Classical Saxophone. Jess is
the baritone saxophone player for the 'Just Sax' ensemble which
has enjoyed statewide success since its formation in 2008. 'Just
Sax' will be representing WA in the sixth
International Saxophone Congress at St Andrews, Scotland in July 2012. They
will be performing a recital of pieces composed by Perth
musicians, commissioned by the quartet specifically for the
Congress. Jess is a very committed performer and in 2009
attended, at her own expense, the fifth World Saxophone
Congress in Bangkok. |
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Jessica Herbert -
Saxophonist | |
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Rosalie Vinicombe - Robert &
Trish Juniper Art Prize
Winner | |
Rosalie Vinicombe
(Juniper Art Prize 2011)
Born in
New Zealand, Rosalie has lived most of her life in the
Mundaring Shire. She obtained a Certificate of Art &
Design and an Advanced Diploma of Environmental Art, both
through Swan TAFE. Rosalie has exhibited on 18 occasions and
has
designed and
created
for a number of organisations and Associations locally and in the
far north of the state. These included running lantern making
workshops at various schools in Broome and designing and
creating a bilby float for the Shinju Matsuri
Festival Parade. She has also designed flyers, posters and
banners for organisations such as Oxfam, EARTH and Walk against
Warming. Rosalie has a strong interest in the environment and
its preservation. She plans to develop a new body of
work which will build on the art pieces she made for the
'Forest for the Trees' exhibition. |
Jessica
Lewis (2011 scholarship
winner)
A worthy winner in 2011 is
Jessica Lewis. Jess spent her early years in Chidlow,
attended Chidlow Primary and Eastern Hills Senior High School.
Since
graduating from WAAPA, Jess has pursued her interest in
performance, choreography and improvisation. This has included
a work in an alleyway (Unexpected Microclimates), a
performance along the Blackwood River (Inhabitate), a duet
involving a beanbag (Only Boring People are Bored) and a solo
inspired by her mother (She Does Headstands). Most recently,
Jess co-founded the collective Unkempt Dance, along with Carly
Armstrong and Amy Wiseman, and has choreographed and performed
various developments of their major work Teahouse at the
Adelaide Fringe Festival, Canberra Short and Sweet Festival
(where they received the People's Choice Award) and Perth's
STRUT Short Cuts. They will be presenting the final
development of this work at Perth Fringe World in February
2012. |
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Jessica Lewis -
Dancer &
Choreographer | |
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Ensnared
Percussion | |
Louis
Frere-Harvey and Adrian Mariano (2010
scholarship)
Louis Frere-Harvey and Adrian
Mariano (both 20), of Darlington and Stoneville respectively,
are percussionists. Louis was a winner in 2007. They are both
studying at WAAPA doing Bachelors of Musical Performance. They
perform as a duo called Ensnared Percussion and intend to use
their scholarships to help fund a course in Japanese Taiko
Drumming in Fukui, Japan, in April 2011 under the Taiko master
Masaaki Kurumaya. |
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Tim
Van Der Kuil – jazz guitarist (1989)
More than twenty years ago, the Mundaring
Arts Scholarship Trust awarded young guitarist Tim van der
Kuil of Darlington a scholarship to help him launch a career
in thesuper-competitive world of music. Two decades on, and
now based in London, Tim is playing guitar for Adele, the
Grammy award-winning British singer who, with album sales of
more than 10 million, is currently the world’s highest selling
artist in her field.
Over the past 20 years, Tim has
performed or recorded with such big names as Robbie Williams,
The Script, Daniel Merriweather, Jason Mraz, Taylor Swift,
Moby, Ray Davies, Sugababes, Delta Goodrem, and Tina Turner.
He has toured the US, appeared on the David Letterman show,
and last December played at a Royal Variety performance in
London.
‘It’s hard forging a career in the arts, let alone
doing it while living in the Perth hills.’ recalls Tim. ‘The
scholarship enabled me to buy equipment that I wouldn’t have
been able to afford otherwise. This helped me to play
professionally and make the move into playing gigs in the
city, as until then I had only been playing
locally.’
Gaining that essential experience in Perth
encouraged Tim to move to Sydney and eventually London. "So
you could say that the scholarship kick-started my whole
career. I think everyone needs a kick-start in the music
business, and in the arts in general. I feel extremely
fortunate that I had that start." |
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Tim Van Der
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